On December 10-11, at the Remes hotel in Opalenica, a meeting of HP MASE engineers devoted to new products for 2015 was held. UpGreat engineers also participated in the training. Among the premieres of the 3PAR and MSA matrices in the coming months, attention should be paid to e.g. introducing such functionalities as:

• File Persona Software in 3PAR arrays, allowing for the implementation of, inter alia, NFS and SMB file sharing protocols
• Virtual pools in MSA arrays, allowing the "stretching" of volumes on different raid groups
• Second level Read Cache based on SSD disks in MSA arrays
• New, prettier and more intuitive web GUI in MSA arrays
• Automatic tiering in MSA matrices

Sending confidential content by e-mail is a fairly common practice. Unfortunately, not always people exchanging information with each other are able to take advantage of such facilities as encrypted e-mail communication, encryption keys or certificates. If sending confidential data is incidental and is not systematically resolved by the IT department, users often resort to the simplest measures in the form of office suite files protected with a password or compressed with a password-protected program such as winzip or winrar. Such solutions, although they seem safe, are characterized by a high level of risk. For the sake of compatibility, the most popular document formats are saved using low-security algorithms. There is a whole range of tools available to help crack passwords for files in the .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx or .zip formats.

So how to deal with a situation when the data we want to send must be quickly and securely delivered to the recipient? Continue ...

The basic method of electronic communication in enterprises in Poland is the use of e-mail messages. At the same time, in private applications, a much wider range of electronic media is used, such as Facebook, Skype, Google+, Hang-out, ChatOn, Twitter and good old SMS messages. In this document, we will consider whether and how the cooperation tools in the company can be enriched with functionalities used in social media.

It should be assumed that free communication tools are chosen by millions of users because of their advantages. Let's consider what features of the above-mentioned solutions make their use so common.

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In HP MSA P2000 arrays, there is an occasional problem with accessing the controller interface from a web browser. Fortunately, the solution to this problem is quite simple and requires no interruption in access to the matrix. Log in with the ssh client or console cable to one of the array controllers and restart it with the command below:

restart mc [a | b | both]

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Moving data from an older file server to the new Windows Server 2008 or 2012 may result in the older 16-bit applications running from a network share failing to obey us. Although the system on which we are trying to run the application from a network share does not change, a message may appear informing that the application or one of its components has not been found:

Can't run 16-bit Windows program
Cannot find file X: \ directory_name \ file_name.exe (or one of this components)

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